Anyway, it's been a crappy weather day, and with our transit strike I wasn't going anywhere. I finished another drawing in illustrator - I think I'm really getting it now. Aside from indecisiveness in regards to my design, this actually came together pretty quickly with minimum googling.
This developed a lot considering my original drawing was this thing floating some-what to the right of this paragraph because I don't quite understand blogger's formatting.
I ended up editing it a lot first mirroring it and then adding to it, back and forth between illustrator and photoshop. The rest of the pieces come from a variety of sources, but unlike the waves in my last attempt, I didn't go so far as drawing original stuff to throw into the background, and just edited a bunch of random elements together to make it look half decent.
And now to fold laundry.
I hope what relatively few posts in your blog says in that you've been painting your butt off this year!
ReplyDeleteThis is in Illustrator?! Oh WOW.
ReplyDeleteI could never wrangle Illustrator to this point of jaw-dropping detailed goodness, I was over-mathed by it. (Kind of like overwhelmed but with math!)
It actually reminds me a lot of your fantastic "gateway to hell" in your apartment in Halifax :)
haha that thing was the best!
ReplyDeleteI'm starting to like illustrator a lot, using it in conjunction with photoshop. I had to find a way to incorporate my own drawings into it to make it practical for my own purposes, illustrator just becomes a tool for fine-tooling and design. It's not bad! I think you'd like it too, exp since you can create elaborate patterns pretty easily in it.